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| The House of Wisdom by Jim Al-Khalili |
In the thousand years among the decline of Rome and the springtime of the Renaissance, technological know-how and different branches of getting to know took a vacation for the duration of Europe. It become a benighted time withinside the records maximum folks raced via in school, skipping gently via Charlemagne and Richard the Lion-Hearted, the Norman Conquest and the Crusades, and arriving none too quickly on the time of Leonardo and Michelangelo, Columbus and da Gama, Erasmus and Luther.
Ignored for the maximum component in Eurocentric debts is the parallel tradition that rose withinside the Middle East with the speedy unfold of Islam after the demise of the prophet Muhammad in 632. Lands from Spain to Persia and past fell to the Muslim sword, and in time a few bold rulers made their palaces sanctuaries of getting to know, the assume tanks in their day, wherein astronomers, mathematicians, physicians and philosophers have been allowed to assignment past the obtained phrase and to exercise technological know-how as an empirical inquiry.
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